Word: archaice
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...felt since the Depression. People challenge the system. Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Byrd Jr., for one, last week declared that conventions are a "political carnival that should be abolished." More seriously, many ask whether the present ramshackle setup, from confused nominating procedures all the way up to the archaic Electoral College, can really be relied on to represent the majority will. Of more immediate interest to politicians is the fact that many voters seem to strain against a two-party system; the weakening of party loyalties and the talk of new parties, while long a fixture...
...leaders, it was comforting. "In these troubled times," said New York's Archbishop Terence Cooke, "it is helpful to have reassurance of faith. The Holy Father gave us just that." But many liberal members of the Pope's flock were dismayed by the new document's archaic theology and terminology, which they felt would do little to make Christianity more relevant to modern man. Commented the Dutch Catholic newspaper De Tijd: "He wanted to break bread, but his words are like stones in our stomachs...
...belief itself seems to be dying, suggests Nourissier: there is a miasma of decaying faiths, whether in Jacobinism or in the church, that leaves the air redolent with cynicism. Even the material world is forbidding. Citizens must seek treatment in hospital buildings that may date from the 17th century, archaic highways are jammed, and telephones do not work- a trivial complaint, perhaps, but symbolic of a more profound lack of communication between groups and generations. "Weary and shrewish" Paris, the heart of the country, has become, "beyond question, the most exhausting capital in the world...
...Sorbonne, compared examinations in his college to the Last Judgment, and contended that the men who graded them were "much more severe than the judges in heaven." Today the long drawn-out trial is compounded of inadequate facilities, rigid rules, distant administrators, dogmatic and unapproachable professors. Trapped in an archaic system, French students live a one-dimensional life that is virtually restricted to matters of the mind. There are few diversions from duty, no athletic teams or fun-centered weekends, almost no extracurricular activities. Days and nights are occupied with grinding, hard, solitary work. Left largely on their own, given...
...appearance in one of Leonard Bernstein's televised Young People's Concerts, he started on a career of recitals and solo stints with major orchestras. This required him to pad out the skimpy repertory for bass by transcribing the music of other instruments, from the archaic viola da gamba to the flute. More recently, composers such as Alec Wilder and Hans Werner Henze have begun to recognize his uniqueness by writing new pieces...